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Street Fighter Pros Apologize For Trolling Streamers
19.8.2021
Kawano is one of Japan’s top Street Fighter V players. He recently took first place in Evo 2021 Online East Asia and won the Topanga Championship 3. But his actions online earlier this summer have recently come under greater scrutiny.Read more
Fortnite Streamer Banned From Twitch, YouTube Following Rape Arrest
13.8.2021
The Brazilian Twitch streamer RaulZito was arrested last month, according to Insider, which cited initial reporting from the Brazilian site G1. Twitch only just banned RaulZito’s account yesterday, per the tracking site StreamerBans.Read more
Twitch Takes A Half-Assed Swipe At Gambling Streams
13.8.2021
Twitch has announced a new rule for streamers that prohibits the sharing of links or referral codes to sites that offer real-money slots, roulette, or dice games. The company says this will protect its viewers from “harm and scams.” Another cool thing Twitch could do to stop the glorification...
Twitch's Response To #TwitchDoBetter Could Do A Lot Better
12.8.2021
Over the last few days, Twitch streamers from marginalized groups have taken to Twitter to appeal to the Amazon-owned company to start doing something meaningful about the serious issues of harassment on the platform. In response, Twitch put up a Twitter thread saying it will engage in “open...
Streamers Are Rallying Behind ‘Twitch Do Better’
10.8.2021
Over the past few days, you might have seen the #TwitchDoBetter hashtag pick up steam on social media networks like Twitter. You might’ve further wondered why it’s popping now, and what it’s all about. Twitch is a company, after all, and companies can always, always do better. But this recent...
Twitch Will Finally Tell Streamers Why They Got Banned
10.8.2021
The days of Twitch mysteriously suspending popular streamers are coming to an end. The Amazon-owned streaming platform announced yesterday that it will now actually tell streamers who get temporarily banned why they’ve been punished. It only took 10 years, folks.Read more
Twitch Streamers and Devs Help Activision Blizzard Walkout With Boycotts, Money
28.7.2021
As employees at Activision Blizzard prepare for today’s Walkout for Equality, streamers, developers, and gamers from around the world are showing their support through charitable donations, game boycotts, and by signal-boosting the event.Read more
A Way For Twitch Streamers To Avoid DMCAs That Might Actually Work
19.7.2021
Despite unprecedented growth and burgeoning mainstream acceptance—or perhaps, in part, because of them—Twitch’s past year and change has been defined by DMCA woes. While it doesn’t seem like they’re going to abate anytime soon, a developer has created an intriguing workaround.Read more
50,000 More Call Of Duty: Warzone Players Have Been Banned
17.7.2021
Call of Duty Warzone devs Raven Software confirmed yesterday afternoon that more than 50,000 players were banned in the last week across two waves of bans hitting the popular online shooter. Read more
Warzone Hackers Are Forcing Cheats On Big Twitch Streamers
14.7.2021
Demonstrating the latest trend in the increasingly active Call of Duty hacking scene, last night several high-profile Warzone streamers suddenly found their accounts boosted to level 1000 with all of their weapon skins unlocked.Read more
Rust Is Big Again On Twitch, Now With Beautiful Music About A Blood God
8.7.2021
Trends come and go on Twitch, but the Blood God is forever. Or at least, that’s the impression I get from a cult dedicated to this imaginary deity is one of the central throughlines between Rust role-playing’s first popularity explosion late last year and its latest, which is happening right now....
Pokimane's Immaculate Room Tour Has Twitch Streamers Showing Off Their Messy Bedrooms
8.7.2021
What does it mean to be authentic on Twitch? Who is real and who is fake on a platform where everybody is a brand, but also where a cornerstone of that brand is the appearance of down-to-earth chillness? This is the implicit question of the week on Twitch, and it’s all thanks to Imane “Pokimane”...
Twitch Gives Trans, Black, And Disabled Streamers Tags, But Not Protection
2.7.2021
It’s been a whirlwind month for Anne Atomic. The streamer saw her star suddenly begin to rocket into the stratosphere in late May when Twitch introduced both a hot tub section and hundreds of new tags, including a particularly long-requested option: “transgender.” For Anne Atomic, these proved...
Twitch Streamer's Missing Daughter Found
2.7.2021
Last weekend, Sarah Perkins, the 17-year-old daughter of Twitch streamer Mikey “MikeyPerk” Perkins, went missing. This sparked off a huge community wide effort to find her, led by Mikey himself. Late last night, he was finally able to deliver some good news: Sarah has been found.Read more
Top Twitch Streamers Fight Over Sketchy Gambling Streams
28.6.2021
Gambling streams are nothing new on Twitch. For years, streamers have sunk money into slot machines and poker, often in conjunction with casino websites and other gambling companies. Though allowed on Twitch, these channels have a history of engaging in sketchy behavior. Recently, some of...
The Most Notorious Twitch Bans
22.6.2021
Every week dozens of streamers get banned and unbanned from Twitch for infractions that range from the ridiculous to the extremely what-the-fuck-were-you-thinking? Streamerbans tracks the highest profile ones, and has become a go-to source for staying on top of who’s in internet time-out, sort...
Twitch's New 'Ear Lick Meta' Blows Up, Bans Ensue
21.6.2021
Hot Tub Meta? Please, that’s so early 2021. Nowadays, the hot thing on Twitch are ASMR audio streams that approximate a level of intimacy some might consider a little too sexual. And those who have tested the limits of what auditory content is allowed on the platform have already received the...
Among Us Developers Say They 'Burnt Out' After Twitch Success
17.6.2021
It’s weird to think about, but there was a time less than a year ago when Among Us wasn’t a household name. When it first launched in 2018, it wasn’t a failure, exactly, but it seemed destined to live out its days as quietly as a good imposter—except without the killing. Then, last summer, it blew...
E3 Tells Creators Like Geoff Keighley They Might Get In Trouble For Streaming Show
12.6.2021
On an internet obsessed with reactions, events like E3 are a goldmine. Content creators of all stripes co-stream big announcements as they happen, adding some flavor to otherwise pristinely packaged proceedings. Today, however, E3 told creators that might not be such a great idea this year.Read more
Facebook's 100% Subscription Money Deal Turns Twitch Streamers' Heads
7.6.2021
Facebook has made no secret of its desire to lure streamers over from Twitch’s saturated pastures. Its latest salvo in the streaming wars? Full subscription profits for streamers for the next two years.Read more